Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 17, 2011

Roberto Rodriguez: Anatomy of a Tragicomic Educational Witch-hunt

Anatomy of a Tragicomic Educational Witch-hunt

By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez

Arizona’s vicious politics in regards to the legality of Tucson’s highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program have now reached the level of tragicomedy.
Despite an independent audit giving MAS two thumbs up – finding that "no observable evidence was present to suggest that any classroom within Tucson Unified School District is in direct violation of the law” – Arizona State Superintendent, John Huppenthal, still managed to give both the program and the $170,000 audit two middle fingers.
Read the article:
http://drcintli.blogspot.com/

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